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Why I talk to warlords
Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda negotiates with warlords for the release of child soldiers
26 Feb 2025,40 mins
The unmaking of a child soldier
As a boy, Ishmael Beah was forced to kill. How do you turn a soldier back into a child?
25 Feb 2025,40 mins
My hunt for the Gutenberg – the rare book that solved a family mystery
Michael Visontay’s unexpected link to the Gutenberg Bible, the world’s most coveted book
24 Feb 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: The smelly edition
From the million dollar nose to the science behind how we smell scents
21 Feb 2025,40 mins
A secret music video shot in Iran: My punk family adventure
Nadia Tehran recorded a forbidden music video on the streets of Iran with their dad
20 Feb 2025,40 mins
'Kids of the Colony': YouTubers exploring their homelands
British best friends explore their families' homelands in Bangladesh, Morocco and Somalia
19 Feb 2025,40 mins
I created Africa's largest ever photo library
Photojournalist Paul Ninson founded the Dikan Centre to reclaim African history
18 Feb 2025,40 mins
Rebel gunmen in Ugandan skies
Pilot Firoz Khimji witnessed his country's wars from above. Then conflict came for him.
17 Feb 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: First loves and first dates
Four remarkable stories of unusual first dates and unexpected romance
14 Feb 2025,40 mins
The making of a Nollywood special effects superstar
How Hakeem Onilogbo transformed Nigeria’s special FX industry – and his family’s fortunes
13 Feb 2025,40 mins
The childhood injury that turned me from singing to surgery
Prema Dhanraj’s experience of severe burns led her to become a plastic surgeon
12 Feb 2025,40 mins
The reinvention of a pioneering reggae artist
Lorna Gee was one of the first female MCs in London's reggae music and sound system scene
11 Feb 2025,40 mins
For the love of smell
Scientist Luca Turin found romance and a biological mystery via his obsession with scent
10 Feb 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: The museum of memories and dreams
A global tour of the museums and galleries holding stories that bring the world to life
07 Feb 2025,40 mins
A stroke of insight: A doctor who learnt as her brain failed
When her brain began to shut down, Dr Jill Bolte Taylor thought, “Wow! This is so cool!”
06 Feb 2025,40 mins
The NYPD cop who gave children a break from the Troubles
Denis Mulcahy gave 23,000 children from Northern Ireland a holiday away from the conflict
05 Feb 2025,40 mins
The boy who brought anime to life in Pakistan
A childhood love for Japanese cartoons led Usman Riaz to build his own animation studio
04 Feb 2025,40 mins
The DNA request that revealed my child had gone missing
Cathy Terkanian turned sleuth when told the baby she’d had to give up, had disappeared
03 Feb 2025,40 mins
The children of the Holocaust, 80 years on
A child’s eye view of life in concentration camps and in exile, from four survivors
31 Jan 2025,40 mins
From security guard at the Met, to artist at the Met
A chance encounter led Armia Malak Khalil to exhibiting at New York’s famous art museum
30 Jan 2025,40 mins
Voice notes of the past - what my dad's singing revealed
An old cassette, a yearning for a lost parent, and a treasure trove of migrant history
29 Jan 2025,40 mins
The film couple turning their own lives into romantic comedy
Karan Soni and Roshan Sethi's real-life love story inspired their film A Nice Indian Boy
28 Jan 2025,40 mins
The Grandmother of Juneteenth, still battling for change at 98
Opal Lee walked to Washington to demand a new national holiday marking the end of slavery
27 Jan 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: A lost cello and a mother and child reunion
Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week
24 Jan 2025,40 mins
How Hollywood got behind my Afghan resistance film
Sahra Mani documented women resisting the Taliban, with help from a film star, and Malala
23 Jan 2025,40 mins
War was my comfort zone, until I had to walk away
Chris Booth dodged bullets and bombs, but came home with mental health concerns.
22 Jan 2025,40 mins
The desert architect who brought back a river
Aziza Chaouni thought Fez had nothing to offer until a polluted river called her back
21 Jan 2025,40 mins
Stolen as a baby, I called my abductor ‘Mom’
A mysterious fire, a missing baby, and a secret that would rip two families apart
20 Jan 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: In pursuit of beauty
Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week
17 Jan 2025,40 mins
Becoming a catfish to catch a catfish
Andrew Lloyd realised someone had collected his images to create a fake online identity
16 Jan 2025,40 mins